Congratulations to our 2019 New Zealand Scholars
Fulbright New Zealand is proud to announce the 2019 New Zealand Scholar Award Grantees. Representing six different universities and research institutions in New Zealand, each scholar will head to the US as early as August 2019 to pursue independent research in the United States, forming international collaborations to solve some of the world’s challenging issues.
The 2019 Fulbright New Zealand Scholars are:
• Fiona
Amundsen from Auckland University of
Technology will research relationships between
documentary photographic and video artworks and the
socio-political realities of military capitalism at
California Institute of the Arts in Santa
Clarita, California.
• Nicola Daly
from the University of Waikato will teach
and research multilingualism in children’s literature at
the University of Arizona in Tuscon,
Arizona.
• Julia Horsfield from the
University of Otago will use single-cell
sequencing to research how cell fate decisions are
controlled in the zebrafish animal model at the
University of California, Davis and the
University of California, Irvine in
California.
• Rangimarie Mahuika from
the University of Waikato will research the
connections and contrasts between traditional Maori and
Native American legal and political concepts at the
University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado.
• Anna Palliser from the
Southern Institute of Technology will
research urban food security and food sovereignty at
Johnson and Wales University in Providence,
Rhode Island.
• Susan Schenk
from Victoria University of Wellington will
develop a Zebrafish model of drug addiction and research
brain changes that accompany repeated exposure to drugs at
the University of Utah in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
The 2019 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar is:
The Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award is for a New Zealand academic, artist or professional to lecture and/or conduct research at a US institution in the field of indigenous development.
• Jason Mika from
Massey University will research the design
of effective enterprise assistance for indigenous
entrepreneurs at Stanford University in San
Francisco, California and University of Arizona
in Tuscon, Arizona.
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Fulbright Scholar
awards are unique in that they are available for research in
any field, but are united in the common goal to forge
international collaboration and have a transformational
impact in their area of expertise.
“I was initially inspired by Senator Fulbright’s original aims of establishing a greater sense of mutual understanding of one another’s cultural difference, along with promoting peace and friendship. While this Fulbright award allows for valuable and concentrated time to develop a significant new body of artworks, it also provides connections to an established whanau network,” said Fiona Amundsen.
“I have known a number of Fulbright alumni, and every one of them have all spoken of their Fulbright experiences as having been really significant in terms of making important networks and connections, while providing them with a much broader perspective on the common issues,” said Rangimarie Mahuika.
The 2019 Fulbright New Zealand Scholars will be honoured at the annual Fulbright Award Ceremony in June.